Fascinating article - I forwarded onto a number of other family and colleagues. Thanks for the link.
I'm in Brisbane this week where the G20 leaders summit is about to start. Looking at their agenda, one thing I wonder about is whether our world leaders really get this... they continue to focus on old-style goals like 'growing the economy at 2% above current plans'. Nothing on climate change (although after heavy pressure Australia's PM has just reluctantly agreed to put 1 paragraph (!) on climate change in the final communique). I think decentralisation is likely to be much deeper a characteristic than just corporations. Post WWII there were 51 countries - now 193 (UN) and rising. Many countries continue to splinter, struggling to hold together within traditional boundaries. Democracy as a process of party powers is not enabling the basic needs of vast numbers of citizens, and thus throwing up large numbers of new parties and independent candidates (or going the other way, resulting in 'virtual democracy' with autocracy and oppression under the veneer of elections). I think it likely the impact of 'the age of failure' on societal institutions will actually be on the hundreds of millions of people and probably billions. Bronwyn To: [email protected]; [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:17:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [OSList] Food for serious thought From: [email protected] Dan – You surely nailed it! I was just about to write a sort of “explanatory note,” but I think you just did it much better than I ever could. Thank you! And for those of you who didn’t read this article --- try it. If English isn’t your primary, don’t worry too much. The language is quite simple. The thoughts and implications are deep. Harrison Winter Address7808 River Falls DrivePotomac, MD 20854301-365-2093 Summer Address189 Beaucaire Ave.Camden, ME 04843207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.comwww.ho-image.comOSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Mezick via OSList Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSList] Food for serious thought Permanent white water? Some interesting quotes from the article, Welcome to the Failure Age... "The only way to harness this new age of failure is to learn how to bounce back from disaster and create the societal institutions that help us do so. The real question is whether we’re up for the challenge." "in a time of constant change, it’s hard for us to predict the skills that we will need in the future. " "...start-ups like Uber and Kickstarter are harbingers of a much larger shift, in which loose groupings of individuals will perform functions that were once the domain of larger corporations. “If you had to know one thing that will explain the next 20 years, that’s the key idea: We are moving toward a period of decentralization.” "...the changes will inevitably become greater, and the results will be drastic. ... The lives of tens of millions of people will change." "....many of us will be forced to experiment with several careers, frequently changing course as the market demands, and not always succeeding in our new efforts. " "...Our own personal reputations will now matter more, and they will be far more self-made. ... It will be harder to explain what you do for a living to acquaintances. The advice of mentors, whose wisdom is ascribed to a passing age, will mean less and less." Permanent whitewtater: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Vaill#Professorships_and_works Daniel On 11/12/14 10:41 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList wrote:The New York Times published a long and most interesting article. I am sure we will hear more of its author, but in the interim I heartily recommend a good hard read. It is a little bit of a slog, but worth every step. I think it has special relevance for anybody concerned with Open Space either as an approach or a way of life. Or both. 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